California school official warns blue states won't go down without fight over Trump's gender orders

President Donald Trump has thrown down the gauntlet against progressive sex ideology successful nationalist schools since taking bureau past month, signing a bid of enforcement orders that immoderate accidental could alteration the ideological scenery of acquisition crossed the U.S.

But, portion conservatives celebrate, 1 schoolhouse committee person warns that heavy bluish states similar California are not lone prepared, but determined, to combat back.

"While I'm excited astir what he's doing, I besides cognize successful places similar California and Colorado and different states, we person to armor up and combat harder than we ever person due to the fact that they are going to propulsion much authorities laws to diminish what Trump is saying and trying to do," Chino Valley Unified School District (CVUSD) schoolhouse committee President Sonja Shaw said successful an interrogation with Fox News Digital.

"I deliberation this is an astonishing measurement forward. But, you'll spot successful California our Department of Ed, Tony Thurmond, our authorities superintendent, [Governor] Newsom, they're each buckling down and saying they perfectly volition not bash that. They're ‘protecting each students.’ They're forgetting astir the girls that person had injuries connected sports teams and person had their opportunities ripped away."

SCHOOL BOARD PRESIDENT ON BEING SUED BY CALIFORNIA AG OVER PARENTAL RIGHTS POLICY: THIS WILL ‘EMBOLDEN’ OTHERS

President Donald Trump holds up an enforcement bid aft signing it astatine an indoor Presidential Inauguration parade lawsuit successful Washington, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025.  (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

For Shaw, the combat hits adjacent to home. In 2023, authorities Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a suit against her territory over a argumentation requiring staff to notify parents if their kid expresses a "gender identity" antithetic from their biologic sex. The authorities argued the argumentation violated students' privateness rights and that it could perchance harm LGBTQ+ students.

Trump's caller enforcement orders person taken purpose astatine progressive sex ideology and Title IX changes that occurred during the Biden administration. 

One Trump enforcement order signed connected the archetypal time of his 2nd word rolled backmost Biden-era guidance that offered Title IX extortion based connected sex individuality by requiring national agencies to instrumentality policies based connected the biologically-defined knowing of the antheral and pistillate sexes.

Another, signed Wednesday, barred biologic antheral athletes from competing successful girls' and women's sports.

The Trump White House has besides urged lawmakers to walk the Protection of Women and Girls Sports Act, which would prohibition biologic males from participating connected girls’ schoolhouse sports teams by amending national instrumentality to specify that pupil athletes indispensable enactment successful schoolhouse sports teams that coincide with their sex astatine birth.

CONSERVATIVE CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS OUSTED AFTER TRANS-RELATED PARENTAL NOTIFICATION POLICIES

Chino Valley School committee subordinate Sonja Shaw speaks successful beforehand of the authorities Capitol connected bills related to LGBTQ schoolhouse program connected Monday successful Sacramento. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times)

Since national argumentation supersedes authorities policy, Alliance Defending Freedom president, CEO and wide counsel Kristen Waggoner, whose radical represents parents, educators and different schoolhouse officials successful cases involving escaped code and parental rights, precocious told Fox News Digital that the bid affirming 2 sexes would apt person far-reaching effects connected nationalist education, peculiarly successful areas similar sports and housing.

Shaw said she's "hoping" the enforcement orders could pb to the national authorities getting progressive successful instances wherever authorities policies are contradictory. Despite opposing authorities leadership, districts similar hers person already enacted blimpish policies protecting parental rights portion clamping down connected Critical Race Theory (CRT) and progressive sex ideology.

With the nation's study paper showing scores person fallen down successful speechmaking and hardly budged successful math, Shaw says attraction should beryllium drawn distant from governmental activism and recentered connected reading, penning and mathematics and, to bring change, the combat for Californians is acold from over. 

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"We inactive person to bash the enactment here, and erstwhile our authorities – I telephone them the governmental cartel up determination – doubles down connected us, it's almost, successful a way, a gift, due to the fact that past we person a choice. We cognize what they're about, and we request to halt voting these radical successful and allowing the powerfulness that we're giving them," she said.

"In California, we had an utmost fig of radical coming retired and voting for Trump. But past the bulk elected the nonsense that's up determination successful Sacramento. We person to commencement educating the moms, the dads, the grandmas and grandpas who – similar myself a fewer years agone – were not progressive successful politics. This is wherefore it matters for you to get to the polls. Take the clip to message successful ballots…

"We person an accidental this adjacent election. We request to bash that. We can't shriek and inquire for assistance from Trump if we're not consenting to bash the groundwork."

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Fox News' Jeffrey Clark and Ryan Gaydos contributed to this report.